I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 37 The Power of Fire Attack
On the morning of the third day of the siege, the barbarians attacked the city again.

During the second siege, the barbarians were obviously much smarter. They made many wooden shields from the wood left over from cutting down trees to make ladders yesterday, and distributed them to the soldiers participating in the siege. With the protection of the shields, the Macedonians Arrows and javelins were much less of a threat to them. At least when the barbarians attacked the city, most of the arrows fired by the defenders were blocked by shields.

Seeing this, the officers of the Greek archers immediately abandoned the ordinary arrows, and ordered the archers to replace them with special arrows wrapped with flammable materials at the end of the arrow——use fire attack!
"Light your arrows!"

The officer in the linen breastplate shouted loudly. As soon as his words fell, the archers who put the arrows on the bowstrings used torches to ignite the combustibles on the top of the arrows with the assistance of special personnel, and then lowered the bowstrings. Pulled to the full moon, their arm muscles tense, ready to shoot.

"Elevation angle 45°, free fire!"

Whoosh whoosh—

Amidst the shrill roars, countless fire arrows soared into the sky, dragging their black tail marks across an arc in the air before falling into the crowd. The scene of countless fire arrows flying in the air was extremely shocking. The running barbarian warriors opened their eyes wide. Mouzu looked at this scene in astonishment. Some people quickly reacted and raised their shields in front of them. However, many people still did not have time to respond. Burning arrows were inserted into their bodies and they felt the heart-piercing burn at the wounds. The burning pain caused the cloth on his body to burn as well.

"Ah-ah-"

The painful screams of wounded soldiers resounded one after another on the battlefield. Those soldiers who escaped the flames looked in horror at the burning clansmen around them, watching him scurrying around like headless flies, desperately trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, But in vain, they begged in pain in the flames, begging their people to rescue themselves from the burning hell.

On the battlefield, the screams of wounded soldiers are enough to shake a soldier's fighting spirit.Seeing the shaken look in the eyes of those soldiers, the barbarian chief who charged in the crowd roared and hacked to death a wounded soldier who was still howling. Then he raised his weapon and roared: "Charge! Continue to charge! Liback!"

"For Adlibek!"

The barbarian warriors who were shocked by the chief's murderous actions shouted loudly after hearing the name of the God of War. Their fighting spirit was also mobilized at the same time, and they continued to charge towards the city wall.

While they were tossing, the Greek archers on the city wall also completed preparations for the second round of shooting. They followed the order of free shooting and desperately exported to the enemies outside the city.All of a sudden, arrows of fire flew across the air outside the city wall, dragging a trail of black flames, wantonly taking the lives of the mortals.

Facing the fierce firepower of the defenders, the barbarian army finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall of Thermopylae after paying a lot of lives. Unlike the siege of the previous two days, the length of their ladders this time has been increased, so they can be directly inserted into the trenches. The bottom was erected on the city wall. However, due to the chaos at the scene, no one found that the bottom of the trench was covered with a layer of dry grass. When the ladder was erected, a black unknown liquid could still be vaguely seen at the bottom.

"Kill! Climb up the ladder! Climb up the city wall!"

"The first person to climb the city wall will be given the status of a nobleman. After his death, he can return to Adlibek's side and become a glorious soldier!"

"Rush! Rush! Rush!"

Amidst all kinds of noisy slogans, a large number of motivated and enthusiastic ordinary tribal fighters climbed up the ladder, their eyes were red, bloodthirsty and fanatical!
However, this frenzy will soon be quenched!
"Drop asphalt!"

On the city wall, the soldiers who were already ready tilted the pots filled with asphalt and poured the black liquid from the top of each ladder. The black liquid flowed directly down the ladder. Soon, an unknown stream The stench filled the air outside the city wall. How could the barbarians understand what the smell represented and still climb up regardless.

In the next second, countless torches protruded from the wall stack. Under the puzzled eyes of the barbarian warriors, the torches ignited the asphalt attached to the ladder and soon caused a raging fire. The flames went down the ladder and ignited the ladder All the barbarian soldiers on the ground also ignited the hay and asphalt that had been prepared in the trench. In just a moment, the flames shot up into the sky, swallowing all the barbarian soldiers around!
"Ah-ah-"

"Help! Help! Someone help me!"

"My God! Ah—"

Under the horrified eyes of the barbarian warriors behind, countless warriors covered in flames broke away from the wall of fire, ran around in pain, and pounced on the warriors of the same tribe who were closest to them, trying to ask them to help put out the fire, but every warrior they touched was also covered by the flames. Lit, this frightening flame quickly spread like a plague, and a faint smell of meat and burnt burnt gradually floated in the air.

"Ahhhh-"

One after another, the Firemen couldn't bear it anymore and jumped down from the ladder. Their figures flashed an afterimage in mid-air and then hit the ground heavily.The flames on their bodies are like the tentacles of the devil, entwining and devouring the flesh of mortals.

Seeing their tribesmen die miserably, those barbarian warriors trembled with fear on the spot, and had no determination to continue fighting. No matter how the nearby barbarian chiefs and warriors shouted, they were determined not to take a step forward. In desperation, the barbarian army's The leader could only order someone to sound the horn for retreat, so that the frontline soldiers could retreat.

"Ugh-"

The second attack on the city was declared a failure amidst the dull sound of horns. The Macedonian soldiers on the wall looked at the fleeing enemy, and they no longer had the excitement of the first time. They admired His Majesty's wisdom more. If Antigonus hadn't poured asphalt into the trench in advance, it would not have been so easy to win today.

However, Antigonus still did not relax in his heart. The asphalt warfare method is easy to use, but it consumes too much. Just one battle consumes almost half of the amount, and he needs to save the rest. Get up, and launch it as a trump card when necessary.

Moreover, after this fire attack, the barbarians must have been on guard, they could not fall twice in the same place, especially if the time between the two times was still very short.

"Send people out of the city to collect arrows and javelins, and increase the vigilance of the sentries."

He gave Kronos such instructions, then threw off the red shirt behind him and walked down the city wall.

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(End of this chapter)